Anti-islamic party wins European elections

[Traianvs]

It's still raining here damnit. I have to go by bike, and I don't have anything to wear against the rain

Please make it stop soon :desire:

[BlackCat]

It's still raining here damnit. I have to go by bike, and I don't have anything to wear against the rain

Please make it stop soon :desire:

Go naked

[BeBMan]

Nakkid voting

Btw, we had three parties for pensioners on the list. Why do old people need so much parties?

[BeBMan]

My, turnout is really low...so far only ca. 20% here.

[dannubis]

Well, In Belgium it seems we finally may get rid of our racist party...

[Riesstiu IV]

I see no one has addressed the five excellent points I made about immigrants. That means I win.

[Kitschum]

You missed terkerjerb, but I see that has been rectified already.

I only agree with 5. On the other hand, I really agree with it. It's some of the best evidence that culture is a factor in certain crimes.

I live near Malmö and it's not so bad. I'll show you around. You're American, you'd laugh. Copenhagen is a hell hole though. They are regularly shooting and stabbing people in the street.

[Riesstiu IV]

I bet that after you show me around, I'll be missing several internal organs by next morning.

Copenhagen has a bad crime reputation? I thought the Danish have absolutely no concept of crime?

[BeBMan]

Remember they're Vikings

[Kitschum]

I'm mostly just teasing the neighbors, it's a beautiful city and I wish the train pass was cheaper so I could go there more often.

They have some sort of gang war going on I think. It seems all the news I hear from that place is someone got shot or stabbed, but you know how the media is.

[Riesstiu IV]

Remember they're Vikings

Vikings were not criminals. They simply helped relocate goods, money, and people while occasionally destroying old condemned villages and monasteries in the process.

[Riesstiu IV]

BTW, While the five points are just trolls, I do feel that the Ben factor is a valid anti-immigration argument.

[BeBMan]

As for the Vikings, they were all for free trade and stuff. More trade = more stuff for them. Like Ghengis Khan made a statement for freedom of movement when he circumvented the Great Wall to attack the Chinese

[Kitschum]

Lol. Pirate Party wins a seat.

Swedish Pirate Party headed for Brussels

Published: 7 Jun 09 21:58 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/19928/20090607/

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Sweden's pro-file sharing Pirate Party is on its way to Brussels having secured more than 7 percent of the country's votes in the European Parliament elections, according to early exit polls.

* Polling stations open doors for EU vote (7 Jun 09)
* Social Democratic backslide as June List surges: poll (6 Jun 09)
* Cyber attack shuts down June List website (6 Jun 09)

Scenes of wild jubilation broke out at the party's election headquarters when state broadcaster SVT announced a projection likely to give the party enough votes to claim two seats in the EU parliament.

"The polls beforehand had us at between eight and nice percent, but everything over four percent is a political sensation," party leader Rick Falkvinge told news agency TT.

12 percent of men and 4 percent of women plumped for the Pirate Party, according to the SVT survey.

Among voters aged under 30, some 19 percent are believed to have cast a vote for the Pirate Party.

"They are the biggest party among young people, bigger than both the Social Democrats and the Moderates," said politics professor Sören Holmberg.

Pirate Party voters said they considered the freedom to file share by far the most important issue when deciding their party allegiance.

The party was founded in January 2006 and quickly attracted members angered by controversial laws adopted in Sweden that criminalised filesharing and authorised monitoring of emails.

Its membership shot up after a Stockholm court on April 17th sentenced four Swedes to a year in jail for running one of the world's biggest filesharing sites, The Pirate Bay.

Sunday's election attracted more voters than in 2004, the last time Europe went to the polls. With 80 percent of the votes counted, projections showed a 42.5 percent turnout this time round, up 5 percentage points on the previous European Parliament election.

Aside from the Pirates, the Greens were Sweden's other big winners, scoring a sensational 11.5 percent in exit polls and becoming the country's third largest party behind the Social Democrats (25.1 percent) and Moderates (18.5).

"It's fantastic. If this is how it ends up it is better than I dared to dream of. What's fantastic is that I don't think we got protest votes, I think we got votes based on our own programme and our own issues," Green Party spokesperson Maria Wetterstrand told SVT.

There was a strong showing too from the Liberal Party, which is set to claim a projected 11.4 percent, just behind the Greens.

For the Left Party on the other hand the election proved catastrophic, with Lars Ohly's party predicted to drop to 5.7 percent, compared to 12.8 percent in 2004.

The June List too would seem to have seen better days. Rising stars last time round, with an incredible 14.6 percent, the relatively new party has come back down to earth with a bruising bump: SVT's exit poll gives the June List a 3.6 percent share of the vote, not enough to gain a parliamentary seat.

Gudrun Schyman's Feminist Initiative, buoyed by a late donation from Abba legend Benny Andersson, achieved an unexpectedly high 3.2 percent, according to SVT's polling station survey.

The survey puts the nationalist Sweden Democrat party at 2.4 percent, up from 1.1 percent in 2004.

The Centre Party (5.8) and the Christian Democrats (5.1) both appear to have performed slightly worse than in 2004 though both comfortably surpassed the 4 percent threshold necessary to qualify for a seat.

[Traianvs]

You've got to be kidding me. Have they got a party program besides filesharing?

I'm not too happy about the election outcomes by the way. They're not as dramatically rightwing as our Belgian regional election results but still, that the eurocritics have gained on the whole is a worrying trend.

Pretty saddening days right now tbh